“By having powerful women sing backup on stage, it showed that she not only has their backup through vocals but their back up through the healing process,” said Kylie Lamunyon, a journalism sophomore at Arizona State University.

Janelle Monae introduced Kesha’s performance and paid homage to the Time’s Up Movement which was celebrated earlier this month at the Golden Globes.

“We say time’s up for pay inequality, time’s up for discrimination, time’s up for harassment of any kind and time’s up for the abuse of power,” Monae said in her powerful introductory speech.

“Praying” was Kesha’s first comeback into music since spending years in a legal battle with her former producer Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald. Kesha accused Gottwald of drugging and emotionally and sexually abusing her in 2014.

“Kesha has made her album ‘Rainbow’ about survival and revival,” said Alyssa Ruiz, a journalism sophomore at ASU and avid Kesha fan.

Kesha’s album “Rainbow” was nominated for best pop vocal album, but ultimately lost to Ed Sheeran’s “Divide.”

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